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Friday, August 3, 2012

Parents Kill Their 17 Year Old Daughter For Being Too Western!

A mother and father who killed their
'Westernised' teenage daughter because they believed she brought shame on the
family were jailed for life today - nine years after the brutal
killing.Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49,
were told they would both serve a minimum of 25 years in prison after a jury at
Chester Crown Court convicted them of the murder of 17-year-old
Shafilea.Mr Justice Roderick Evans told them: 'Your
concern about being shamed in your community was greater than the love of your
child.'She was being squeezed between two cultures,
the culture and way of life that she saw around her and wanted to embrace, and
the culture and way of life you wanted to impose on her.'The trial heard that they suffocated the
teenager with a plastic bag at the family home in Warrington, Cheshire, in
September 2003.Farzana cried as she was led from the court,
while Mr Ahmed shook his head in disbelief.Mr Ahmed's solemn reaction was in stark
contrast to when he was led to the cells
to await the sentence earlier today, audibly telling police officers in the
courtroom to 'f*** off'.Before they were taken away to begin their
life sentences, the judge asked them: 'What was it that brought you two, her
parents, the people who had given her life, to the point of killing
her?'

Photos of the murdering folks and More after the cutHe continued: 'You chose to bring up your
family in Warrington but although you lived in Warrington your social and
cultural attitudes were those of rural Pakistan and it was those which you
imposed upon your children.'Shafilea was a determined, able and ambitious
girl who wanted to live a life which was normal in the country and in the town
in which you had chosen to live and bring up your children.'However, you could not tolerate the life that
Shafilea wanted to live.